Coroner’s inquest to begin into death of former RCMP spokesman

A coroner’s inquest into the death of a 28-year RCMP veteran who died of self-inflicted wounds in 2013 was scheduled to start Monday in Burnaby.

Sgt. Pierre Jean Dabe Lemaitre, 55, a former RCMP spokesperson, was found dead in his Abbotsford home on July 29, 2013.

Lemaitre was the officer in charge of RCMP media relations in 2007, when Robert Dziekanski died in Vancouver International Airport after being stunned with a Taser. He was the first officer to address the media about the incident.